16 APRIL 1954, Page 12

CINEMA

The Long Long Trailer. (Empire.) and Mr. Arnaz talk in an anguished escapist way about a book which has been turned into a movie—both of them so scared they have no notion of what they are saying.

This film has had a tremendous success in America and it will assuredly have one here, except, of course, with the manufacturers of trailers. It has the same appal as has the man who, with gaiety and panache, takes a step that isn't there. One does not want to laugh but it is impossible not to.

VIRGINIA GRAHAM